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August 22nd, 2008 — , AV-AT, Anya McCoy, Anya's Garden, Arghand, Natural Perfumery, Trygve Harris, botanical perfume, butch owen, enfleurage from Anya @ Anya's Garden
Gardenia flowerWhen I was in school studying Economic Botany, (scroll down) I reveled in tales of the Plant Hunters. These were adventurous botanists who traveled to remote regions looking for plants that would be useful to us. Many focused on medicina…
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May 31st, 2008 — , ben oil, enfleurage, moringa oil, natural perfumery yahoo group from Anya @ Anya's Garden
Posted earlier today on various groups I host on Yahoo and one I don’t, but my friend’s group is dedicated to oils and herbs:No, it’s not a man, and if he was, I guess he’d be like the killer in Perfume, the book/movie. The image is of a camel providin…
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January 11th, 2008 — Bees, Feature, Fragrance, Perfume, Smelly Facts, chemicals, communication, enfleurage, mating, neotropical orchid bee, odors, scent, signaling from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet
Bees commonly use odors in order to communicate with each other. This behavior is especially prevalent in the context of mating. These odors, are most often produced by the bees themselves – that is, they are chemicals produced by their glands. Some bees however, make use of odors found in their environment in order to communicate. The males of the neotropical orchid bee genera, which count more
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May 30th, 2007 — Chanel, Guerlain, china, enfleurage, europe, flowers, grandiflorum, jasmine, joy, patou, pikake, sambac, sambaquita. india, tea from helg @ Perfume Shrine
In the universe of flowers used for their fine precious scent used in luxe perfume, no other blossom stands alone as ubiquitous as jasmine, with the possible exception of rose. Indeed those two grace most perfumes’ heart bouquet as the classic marria…
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